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  1. New executive order puts all grants under political control (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.27 78 #85 | 189 points by pbui 9 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. GPT-5 leaked system prompt? (github.com/maoxiaoke)
    ×4.46 53 #58 | 266 points by maoxiaoke 8 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without notice?
    ×8.38 83 | 13 points by turowicz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Rotten Apple: Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant (mintpressnews.com)
    ×4.24 47 #89 | 7 points by jrepinc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Thing I learned this year was keeping a work journal
    ×2.60 55 | 6 points by Muromec 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Open models by OpenAI (openai.com)
    ×7.53 25 #75 | 2099 points by lackoftactics 2 days ago | 862 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. GPT5 Is Horrible (reddit.com)
    ×6.56 38 #66 | 13 points by druskacik 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers (ergaster.org)
    ×1.94 27 #57 | 90 points by JNRowe 10 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Tesla shuts down Dojo, the AI training computer that is key to full self-driving (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.58 43 | 5 points by jnord 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. US Adds Surprise Gold Bar Tariff in Blow to Switzerland (bloomberg.com)
    ×3.08 32 #53 | 22 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords (danielh.cc)
    ×4.99 23 #52 | 876 points by max__dev 1 day ago | 725 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Linux KDE Plasma Features That Changed How I Use My PC (howtogeek.com)
    ×2.47 47 | 4 points by jrepinc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Genie 3: A new frontier for world models (deepmind.google)
    ×5.48 20 | 1477 points by bradleyg223 2 days ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. KLM, Air France latest major organizations looted for customer data (theregister.com)
    ×2.67 57 | 4 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. GPT-5 ChatGPT integration coming to Apple Intelligence in iOS 26 (ithinkdiff.com)
    ×2.73 57 | 4 points by thm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Vibechart (vibechart.net)
    ×5.37 22 #26 | 800 points by datadrivenangel 14 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. HTTP Is Not Simply (haxx.se)
    ×2.74 39 | 4 points by bigblind 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me (grell.dev)
    ×4.89 19 | 788 points by serhack_ 2 days ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. 36B solar masses: what may be the most massive black hole ever detected (phys.org)
    ×2.46 46 #63 | 7 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Ask HN: Which processor to pick for learning assembly?
    ×1.29 30 | 4 points by shivajikobardan 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews (qodo.ai)
    ×1.21 20 #30 | 65 points by marsh_mellow 5 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. iOS Client for Proton Authenticator (github.com/protonpass)
    ×1.85 46 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ask HN: Which AI do you think is the best, and tell me why?
    ×1.88 44 | 3 points by Den1996 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Understanding not just Clojure's comp function by re-implementing it (evalapply.org)
    ×1.86 40 | 3 points by adityaathalye 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition (projecthyperion.org)
    ×1.99 15 | 355 points by codeulike 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Qwen3-30B-A3B-2507 and Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 now support up to 1M token context (twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen)
    ×1.79 35 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Virtual Threads with Java 24 – Will It Scale? (gaetanopiazzolla.github.io)
    ×2.75 25 | 4 points by nromiun 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. 79% of OpenBSD kernel source is AMD DRM (marc.info)
    ×3.56 15 #74 | 71 points by cnst 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Litestar is worth a look (b-list.org)
    ×2.06 13 | 333 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) (harpers.org)
    ×1.55 15 #34 | 79 points by mitchbob 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. US to rewrite its past national climate reports (france24.com)
    ×7.74 27 #28 | 170 points by mdhb 1 hour ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Sqlite3 will also read and write ZIP archives (mastodon.social)
    ×2.29 27 #41 | 10 points by mtmail 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Gemini CLI GitHub Actions (blog.google)
    ×1.47 12 #69 | 243 points by michael-sumner 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Why Is History Crucial to Politics? (historyforpeace.pw)
    ×1.96 24 | 3 points by fluffybeing 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Cursed Knowledge (immich.app)
    ×3.71 12 #18 | 354 points by bqmjjx0kac 12 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study (harvard.edu)
    ×1.79 11 #71 | 142 points by highfrequency 20 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Ask HN: Anyone else using open-source platforms to avoid SaaS lock-in?
    ×1.58 19 #44 | 6 points by sharan_gohar_ 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Oops Safari, I Think You Spilled Something (exodusintel.com)
    ×1.23 12 | 3 points by Bogdanp 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Amazon's cloud business giving federal agencies up to $1B in discounts (cnbc.com)
    ×2.71 11 | 3 points by radialstub 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?
    ×0.66 7 #48 | 38 points by admissionsguy 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari (apple.com)
    ×4.41 5 | 1124 points by Jiahang 3 days ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Jules, our asynchronous coding agent (blog.google)
    ×2.15 3 | 335 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome (colton.dev)
    ×4.42 2 | 919 points by coltonv 2 days ago | 637 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???